OTAGO'S DIFFICULTY.

Westport Times, Volume VIII, Issue 1179, 26 May 1874, Page 2

OTAGO'S DIFFICULTY.

The writer of " Passing Notea" in the Otngo Daily Times saya :—The Queen's Government must be carried on, and so, I suppose, must the Superintendent's.' Tet the difficiiUy of framing an Executive in the most prosperous' times might well read us all a lesson. There is something instructive in it. Why should there have been something like a fortnight lost last year, midsome little time this, because men cannot be got together to govern the country. " I am unwilling t:> be made a bishop " will soon be out of date compared with"" I am unwilling to be made a member of the Executive"

If tlicso things happen iii the green tree, when the sap is running freely—when the coffers are full, and the only difficulty is the best disposition of the funds—what will happen iu the dry, i.e., when the land is all sold and the money all spent; when the Supplementary Estimates and their allocation will no longer bo a source of trouble, because nobody expected a shilling out of them, and they are clearly understood to be only a complimentary form of words for the purpose of soothing angry constituents ? I 3 it because we have no leading men—men who command the respect of all sections—not to call them parties —in the House ? Is it because everybody is too thin-skinned and does'nt like being abased by somebody ? Is it because our best men are too hard up, and cannot afford the time for public works ? or is it because they are too well olf, and are bent upon making hay while the sun shines ? Is it because the foreseea time of inextricable difficulty and do not wish to be implicated ? or is it because they think the country so prosperous as not to need their help ? Why is there a difficulty ? Echo answers, Why?